Until June 23rd the biannual fotofestival Naarden takes place again.
Situated in the very nice fortress town Naarden this festival looks at the current state of Dutch photography. The them this year is: “Don’t stay here”. Photographers look over the country borders and especially Ditch photographers do so. The choice of the curators is very diverse and the quality of the pictures is very high.
Highlights are the portraits of homeless people made by Jan Banning. He portrayed them not in a cliché way but in a way, we, ourselves would be liked to be portray. Also good to see is that almost the whole program consist of solid documentary and portrait photography. The days of too overly artistic photography are over.
Highly recommended.